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Elevated Red Cell Distribution Width Is Independently Associated With a Higher Frailty Risk Among 2,932 Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Background: Older adults are at an increased risk of frailty, but laboratory surrogates for identifying frailty in this population remain controversial and clinicians frequently encounter difficulty during frailty screening. We examined whether having a high red cell distribution width (RDW) was ass...

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Autores principales: Li, Chia-Ming, Chao, Chia-Ter, Chen, Shih-I, Han, Der-Sheng, Huang, Kuo-Chin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7477345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32984367
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2020.00470